Salma Elmalaki
Scholar

Salma Elmalaki

Google Scholar ID: 6QKACtcAAAAJ
EECS Department at University of California, Irvine
Human FactorsCPSMobile ComputingExtended Reality
Citations & Impact
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Citations
294
 
H-index
11
 
i10-index
12
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • NSF CAREER Award (2024–2028) for 'Psychology-aware Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical-System (HCPS): Methodologies, Algorithms, and Deployment'
  • NSF CRII Award (2021–2023) for 'Society-in-the-Loop Personalized Computing'
  • Best Paper Award and Best Community Paper Award at MobiCom 2015
  • Early Career Teaching Excellence Award, UCI Samueli School of Engineering (2023)
  • Professor of the Year Award from Engineering Student Council (ESC), EECS Department (2023)
  • Honorable Mention, Dr. De. Gallow Professor of the Year Award, UCI (2022)
  • Advised student Armand Ahadi-Sarkani won Gold Medal at ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC’21, undergraduate category)
  • CORCL Award from UCI Academic Senate (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • MERI Seed Fund Award, Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Initiative, SSoE, UCI (2020)
  • Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2016–2018)
  • Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholarship (2018)
  • Best Paper Award, Microsoft Research Student Summit on Mobility, Systems, and Networking (2015)
Background
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)
  • Director of the Pervasive Autonomy Lab
  • Research focuses on integrating human factors into cyber-physical systems, emphasizing performance, privacy, reliability, fairness, and adaptability
  • Research draws on embedded systems, human modeling, machine learning, and mobile computing
  • Co-Director of the Professional Master of Engineering program in Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS)